Hi Ken! On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Ken Goldman <[email protected]> wrote: > I downloaded mingw from mingw.org. The documentation says: > > "The project's name changed from mingw32 to MinGW is to prevent the > implication that MinGW will only works on 32 bit systems (as 64 and > higher bit machines become more common, MinGW will evolve to work with > them)." > > What exactly does that mean? Has it evolved yet? Can I compile for 64 > bits? Do I need some other package? A flag? Or is mingw not ready yet?
To clear up a possible point of confusion: mingw and mingw-w64 are two separate projects. mingw-w64 supports native 64-bit compilation. niXman's link give a good introduction on how to do this. (I have been using Ruben's builds for some time now to compile natively on 64-bit windows 7.) At the risk of stating something incorrectly, I believe that the mingw project intends to support 64-bit compilation at some point in the future. As far as I know mingw does not yet support 64 bits (but I could be out of date). So I expect that what you downloaded from mingw won't compile for 64 bits, but if you download from the separate mingw-w64 project, you will be able to compile for 64 bits. (By the way, this is the mailing list for the mingw-w64 project. The mingw project has a separate mailing list, although a number of people subscribe to both.) Good luck. K. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
